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Quotes About Femininity

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
~ Zoe Kazan
In 'Drama,' I play a flirtatious girl who uses her femininity to get things done.
~ Radhika Pandit
I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
~ Lizzo
I like perfume and flowers.
~ Donatella Versace
The woman always wins. With courage, intelligence, and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on earth, the human male, to his knees.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
The feminine seduces because it is never where it thinks it is, or where it thinks itself.
~ Jean Baudrillard
les beaux bras ronds des femmes, les lèvres qui s'appointent
~ Jean Giono
The men compete in what they do; the women in what they make,' she said, then smiled, 'including babies, though that is a very subtle competition, and nearly everyone thinks she is the winner.
~ Jean M. Auel
a choker they made with a star charm hung from a black grosgrain ribbon - admiring herself in a heart-shaped Venetian mirror, wielding a golden tube of lipstick in her right hand and holding a bottle of perfume in her left.
~ Unknown
I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.
~ Jean Rhys
her waist goes in , her hips come out, her long black hair is coiled into a smooth bun on the top of her round head. She is very restful to the tired eye.
~ Jean Rhys
Il y a une noblesse dans le réalisme à laquelle l'esprit des plus nobles femmes ne parvient jamais. Le réel ne les incline point.
~ Unknown
When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I noticed that women have a private language. A language not dependent on the constructions of men but structured by signs and expressions, and that uses ordinary words as code-words meaning something other.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had around the place...not particularly interesting, but quite harmless.
~ Jeanette Winterson
With only our imaginations . . . we can't remember what it is about women that can turn a man through passion into something holy.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You can always tell a good woman by her sandwiches
~ Jeanette Winterson
Ce principe établi, il s'ensuit que la femme est faite spécialement pour plaire à l'homme. Si l'homme doit lui plaire à son tour, c'est d'une nécessité moins directe : son mérite est dans sa puissance ; il plaît par cela seul qu'il est fort. Ce n'est pas ici la loi de l'amour, j'en conviens ; mais c'est celle de la nature, antérieure à l'amour même.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.
~ Jeannette Walls
A lady's hair is her crowning glory
~ Jeannette Walls
Woman work a great many miracles.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.
~ Garry Marshall